‘JESUS has washed away all my sins; He has not left one, and I am so happy.’
Such was the simple but grand testimony to the all-sufficiency of the glorious work of the Lord Jesus Christ to put away sin.
And by whom do you think, my reader, was this blessed testimony to the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus given?
I can quite understand the thought that will pass through many a reader’s mind — “Oh, it must have been some Christian of experience who, after years of faithfulness, knew the full blessedness of being saved, and of having every sin blotted out!” No; it was not an old Christian of great experience, and long and faithful service, it was a dear little child of eight years, who, in a letter to the writer, could say in the simplicity of her faith that “Jesus had washed away all her sins;” that “He had not left one; and, of course, the result of such a glorious truth is happiness, whether to young or old.
The testimony of this dear child may perhaps touch a chord in your heart, my reader. You may be older, and have walked longer in the paths of sin, and may know that sin and misery are very close companions, even in this world; and the word of God tells you that the end of that pathway is darkness, death, and eternal woe; conscience tells you that what God says is solemnly true; the thought arises in your mind, and the desire comes into your heart, “Oh that I could say what that dear little child says about the blood of Jesus, that it has washed away all my sins, so that there is ‘not one left!’ That would indeed make me happy.”
Well, my reader, what does the word of God say about it? This little child just simply believed what the word of God says; that was why she was so sure that her sins were gone.
She knew she was a sinner, and a lost sinner, though young and she could read in the word of God that Jesus gave Himself for our sins; that He suffered for sins, the just for the unjust; and that God had raised Him from the dead. She believed what the word of God says, and that it was for her; “that is salvation.” Of course the Scriptures say a great deal more upon the same subject, about the blood of God’s Son cleansing from all sin, and those who simply believe in Him being justified from all things. Why should not you just believe what God says, my reader? In His great love the blessed Lord has given Himself, suffered, and died, that poor lost sinners, like you and me, may be saved, and by thus believing what God says you will, like the little child, be able to say, “He has not left one sin.”
W. H.